At Longquan Monastery, a 1,000-year-old courtyard building at the foot of the mountains in Beijing's western suburbs, Venerable Master Xuecheng meets with friends and talks about Buddhism.
The Dutch owner of a 1,000-year-old Buddha statue containing a mummified monk has said he will return the artifact to China within a month.
China's main event marking 2015 International Museum Day was held on Monday at the Hebei Museum in Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei province.
China has opened an average of 200 new museums per year over the past decade, said senior cultural heritage officials on Monday.
More treasures from the Forbidden City, including rare and exotic plants, will go on display with the opening of a museum in the outskirts of Beijing.
The Palace Museum in Beijing will cap the number of daily visitors allowed through the gates beginning on June 13.
According to Chinese experts, Modi visited the two temples because their cultural background. The both temple showed the history of cultural exchanges between China and India.
A new documentary film takes an in-depth look at Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's 1979 US visit, and shows footage of two attempts on his life.
China stands out not only for its three pavilions, one national and two corporate at the world exposition in Milan, but also for the special attention paid by the Italian event to the Asian country.
Three deep-pocketed Chinese buyers spent a total of $116.67 million at an auction of Western art on May 5 in New York.
For years, cherry trees in full bloom at the prestigious Wuhan University have made the campus a springtime attraction.
Fossils of Peking Man are very rare, as most disappeared during World War II, so it is no surprise that scientists are excited by analysis published on a tooth from a 600,000 year old ancestor of modern man.
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